We performed a comparison between Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series and Pivot3 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, VMware, Nutanix and others in HCI."StarWind has provided us with a top-notch, well-supported, robust vSAN offering when other vendors have moved to hyper-converged solutions that are outside of our average clients' reach from a financial and resource perspective."
"I have found the graphical user interface to be the most useful thing about Virtual SAN."
"The vSAN provides full redundancy for storage while reclaiming some rack space."
"You can build cheap, reliable, replicated virtual machines clusters using simple servers with an all flash disk or SAS\SATA hybrid tiered by performance storage."
"StarWind Virtual SAN offers high availability and data resilience features to prevent data loss if hardware fails."
"The failover protection and the ability to expand storage and nodes with no downtime are by far the best physical features we have benefited from."
"vSAN we found was simple to set up, easy to configure and manage and allows us to achieve storage redundancy."
"In the three years that we have been using StarWind, the product has yet to cause us any problems."
"The compression and deduplication are very high. Therefore, we can use the size of the product more efficiently than other storage solutions."
"The solution scales extremely well."
"The most valuable feature is that you can manage the whole cluster from the traffic interconnect."
"The price of the solution is good, especially when it comes to complex network solutions, such as UCS and Connect."
"I like Cisco Intersight."
"Easy to spin up and operate virtual machines without the overhead of managing a storage network."
"The most valuable feature for our company is that it works internally. We have a lot of internal projects for optimization."
"The workload can handle anything and has an extended capacity."
"One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation."
"The most valuable feature is the visual encoding."
"I would like an automated installation/configuration despite the fact that their service is very collaborative, a customer should be able to deploy the solution by themselves."
"The management console of StarWind Virtual SAN is pretty complex."
"The configuration can a bit cumbersome."
"I did not see any indication that StarWinds vSAN is a usable solution with non-GUI instances of Hyper-V."
"The documentation is good yet is still lacking in a few areas."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"You have to do a "full" sync on write-back cache disks instead of a quick sync if there is an issue."
"Technical support is very good. Not excellent, but good. There's still not enough data available on the web. For example, for the integration to VMware, I had a case recently and I searched for more information but didn't find any."
"In the next release, Cisco should add more integration and management capabilities as well as some tweaks to the dashboard that make it more user-friendly. They could also add support for multiple hypervisors."
"It needs more detailed documentation."
"If we could have just a single pane of glass, where everything can be managed through that one app, rather than have multiple apps, it would be great."
"I would like to see more analytics. It could use better infographs in the HyperFlex Connect on how traffic is running in the network. If you were reaching any capacity issues on the Fabric Interconnects, it should be able to cool all of the servers and Fabric Interconnects, then possibly integrate it with, e.g., Nexus Series switches. This should all be available in a single pane of glass."
"We had a bit of complexity to think about how to migrate our legacy infrastructure into Cisco HyperFlex."
"There should be the opportunity to create more than one div group"
"HyperFlex could be improved by reducing the minimum number of nodes supported from three to two."
"Snapshot notification would be a good addition."
"One of the biggest problems with HCI vendors was the lack of flexibility for adding resources"
"In the next release, I would like to see compatibility and support for critical applications, like SAP."
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is ranked 8th in HCI with 90 reviews while Pivot3 is ranked 26th in HCI. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is rated 8.0, while Pivot3 is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series writes "A fast and easy deployment that allows secure access to our medical applications ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pivot3 writes "One feature we found useful was the product's complete ability to integrate with vCenter". Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Dell PowerFlex and HPE SimpliVity, whereas Pivot3 is most compared with VMware vSAN.
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